Arthur Drews

Christian Heinrich Arthur Drews ( born 1 November 1865 in Uetersen (Holstein ); † July 19, 1935 in Achern ) was a German philosopher, writer, and important representative of German monism.

Life

After Bruno Bauer and next to Albert Kalthoff was Arthur Drews, a pupil of Eduard von Hartmann, the most famous German who doubt the existence of a historical Jesus. His work " The Christ- " (1909 ) gave rise to heated public debates.

Albert Schweitzer has devoted established by Drew's theses in his "History of the life of Jesus research " (1913 ) a chapter. Today, the " Christ- " in Germany - unlike the Anglo-Saxon countries where there is still a translation ( The Christ Myth ) is on the market - largely forgotten.

He died in the medical and nursing home Illenau at Achern and includes not only the theologian Karl Bernhard dogs Hagen (1810-1872), Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria (1826-1875) and the Mayor of Heilbronn Paul Hegelmaier (1847-1912) to their famous patient.

Works

• The ego as a fundamental problem of metaphysics. 1897
• Eduard von Hartmann's philosophical system in plan. 1902
• The religion as self-consciousness of God. A philosophical inquiry into the nature of religion. Jena 1906
• The Christusmythe. Jena 1909
• The Peter legend. A contribution to the mythology of Christianity. Frankfurt / M. 1910
• The Christusmythe. Second part. The evidence for the historicity of Jesus. An answer to the scribes with special reference to theological method. Jena 1911
• Monism shown in posts of his deputies. 2 vols Jena 1908
• The starry sky in poetry and religion of ancient peoples and of Christianity. An introduction to the astral mythology. Jena 1923
• Free religion. Proposals for the continuation of the Reformation thought. 3rd edition Mannheim 1921
• The Gospel of Mark as a testimony against the historicity of Jesus. Jena 1921
• Did Jesus lived?. Lenz, Neustadt 1994, ISBN 3-9802799-6-0 ( Repr ed d Mainz 1924)
• The denial of the historicity of Jesus, past and present. Braun, Karlsruhe 1926 online resource
• Philosophical correspondence with Eduard von Hartmann 1888-1906. Edited by Rudi mother and Eckhart Pilick. With an introduction by Eckhart Pilick. Guhl, Rohrbach 1995, ISBN 3-930760-10- X
• Plotinus and the downfall of the ancient worldview. Scientia Verlag Aalen, 1964 ( Repr ed d Jena 1907)
• The ethics of Jesus, essay. With an introduction by Eckhart Pilick. Peter Guhl 2008, ISBN 3-930760-78-9